Newsletter for Thursday, May 22nd 2008

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::: L I N K S F O R T H E D A Y :::

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::: A D V E R T I S I N G :::

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (42) :::

[001] - 123 Flash Chat 1.5.3 (Joomla)
[002] - ACL Policy Daemon for Postfix 0.73
[003] - AntiWM 0.0.1
[004] - cbrPager 0.9.16
[005] - Config::Model::CursesUI 1.007
[006] - Debea Database Access Library 1.2.4
[007] - Doapfiend 0.3.0
[008] - Funambol SOGo Connector 1.0.4
[009] - gbdfed 1.4
[010] - giv 0.9.2
[011] - gjrand 2.0.0
[012] - GNU GTick 0.4.2
[013] - Hinversi 0.8.2
[014] - HL7 Browser 0.9.7
[015] - Interchange 5.6.0 (Stable 5.6.x)
[016] - itvp-dl 0.2
[017] - JerkLib 0.7r811
[018] - JGraph Layout Pro 1.4.1
[019] - mach 0.9.3
[020] - Mail Notification 5.4
[021] - mapaaudio 2.97
[022] - mpg123 1.4.3
[023] - Openchart2 1.4.1
[024] - OpenWFEru 0.9.18
[025] - Oroboros 20080522
[026] - otf2bdf 3.1
[027] - P4A 3.0.0-rc3 (Development)
[028] - PerlGtk Adsense Checker 0.1.1
[029] - pyswisseph 1.72.00-6
[030] - Python bsddb3 4.7.0
[031] - ropevim 0.1
[032] - seek-1f42 1.55
[033] - Spensierato Pre Release 3
[034] - Talend Open Studio 2.4.0RC2 (Development)
[035] - ThinkUI SQL Client 1.0.6
[036] - tinypy 1.1
[037] - Trash 0.1.10
[038] - Wing IDE 3.1.1
[039] - XGalaga++ 0.8
[040] - XMMS-SID 0.8.0beta19 (Development)
[041] - yawiki engine 2.1
[042] - YourKit Java Profiler 7.5-RC3-build3046 (EAP)

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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::

[001] - 123 Flash Chat 1.5.3 (Joomla)
by lucia (http://freshmeat.net/users/123flashchat/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 05:11

Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Chat :: AOL Instant Messenger
Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: 123 Flash Chat is a Java chat server with a Flash client with
custom skins, linkable to external databases. It is fast, easy, secure,
and scalable to support businesses of any size. It can be used for
community chat events, online dating sites, etc. It's also flexible with
moderated chat, CRRC, avatar chat, and event chat.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flash1chat1room/

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[002] - ACL Policy Daemon for Postfix 0.73
by Miguel Filho (http://freshmeat.net/users/miguelfilho/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 13:20

Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents
System :: Systems Administration

About: ACL Policy Daemon communicates with the Postfix MTA using the
Policy Delegation Protocol, implementing an ACL (Access Control List)
system. Key features: greylisting with flexible storage using memory for
fast responses or disk for high persistence, SPF validation, control of
messages by day/time, variable message size limits per domain or email,
multiple RBL checking, and various ACLs available to use and combine. The
configuration is simple and intuitive.

Changes: A new country ACL to discover where the connection is coming
from. A new stress ACL to detect if Postfix is under heavy load. A new
memcached backend for greylisting, greatly improving performance and
memory control. Packaging configuration for deb and RPM.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/apolicy/

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[003] - AntiWM 0.0.1
by SoDak (http://freshmeat.net/users/SoDak/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 09:36

Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

About: AntiWM is a minimal, full-screen, keyboard driven window manager
for X. It is inspired by ratpoison. All windows are managed in full-screen
mode, optimizing workspace, and the keyboard operated management system
allows for little to no use of the mouse.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/antiwm/

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[004] - cbrPager 0.9.16
by John (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcoppens/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 10:22

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Desktop Environment :: Theme :: Art
Desktop Environment :: Theme :: Cartoons

About: cbrPager is a no-nonsense, simple to use, small viewer for CBR and
CBZ (comic book archive) files. It views JPG, GIF, and PNG images, and you
can zoom in, out, and fit-to-window. Viewing can be in 1- or 2-page mode.
Navigation is possible by mouse or keyboard.

Changes: Keyboard shortcuts for the navigation bar are now editable in
Preferences. Select the last page, select the shortcuts to be edited, and
click on the shortcut. You will then be able to directly type in the new
shortcut. Changes will be saved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cbrpager/

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[005] - Config::Model::CursesUI 1.007
by Dominique Dumont (http://freshmeat.net/users/ddumont/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 08:51

System :: Installation/Setup

About: Config::Model::CursesUI provides a curses user interface for all
configuration descriptions created for config-model. This project is based
on the Curses::UI Perl module.

Changes: This version was adapted to Config::Model 0.623 by changing the
"permission" parameter to "experience" in the models' declarations.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/config-model-cursesui/

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[006] - Debea Database Access Library 1.2.4
by Lukasz Michalski (http://freshmeat.net/users/_zork_/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 10:28

Database :: API

About: The Debea Database Access Library is a collection of interfaces
that map C++ objects to relations in various SQL and file databases. The
library uses a plug-in architecture to support various SQL RDBMSes and
provides one simple interface for query processing and object
serialization. There is a wrapper for wxWidgets that replaces the original
dba API with a wx-friendly version.

Changes: This release fixes compilation errors for gcc 3.4 and 4.x.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/debea/

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[007] - Doapfiend 0.3.0
by Rob Cakebread (http://freshmeat.net/users/justrob/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 13:18

Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: Doapfiend is a command line client and Python library for fetching,
displaying, and manipulating DOAP (Description of a Project) RDF files.
Doapfiend uses rdflib with RDFAlchemy as an ORM to query and create DOAP.

Changes: This release adds a plugin to get DOAP for Ohloh projects. It
adds a plugin to get DOAP for any projects found in a FOAF file.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/doapfiend/

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[008] - Funambol SOGo Connector 1.0.4
by Extra (http://freshmeat.net/users/extrafu/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 09:15

About: The Funambol SOGo Connector allows any SyncML enabled devices
(mobile phones, PIM devices, etc.) to fully synchronize contacts, events,
and tasks with SOGo. The connector is fast and reliable.

Changes: Item comparison after a slow sync was improved. Many small
bugfixes and other general improvements were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/funambolsogo/

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[009] - gbdfed 1.4
by Mark Leisher (http://freshmeat.net/users/mleisher/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 13:24

Desktop Environment :: Fonts
Software Development :: Widget Sets
System :: Console Fonts

About: gbdfed is a GTK+-based BDF font editor. Multiple fonts can be
loaded from the command line. Multiple fonts can be open at the same time.
Cutting and pasting glyphs between fonts, font name and property editing,
and built-in online help. It imports PK/GF, HBF, PSF, CP, Linux FNT,
VFONT, OpenType/TrueType, and some FON/FNT fonts. It can export PSF2
fonts.

Changes: Many changes since version 1.0.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gbdfed/

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[010] - giv 0.9.2
by Dov Grobgeld (http://freshmeat.net/users/dovg/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 03:51

About: giv, the G(reat|tk|NU) Image Viewer, is an image and hierarchical
vector viewer. It was designed especially for scientific vision and
computational geometry.

Changes: This version adds automatic resizing of the data on window
resize, image equalization, inversion, and normalization, and checkboard
patterns behind transparent PNGs. Several bugs in line and polygon drawing
were fixes. The zoom interaction was changed and should now be smoother.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/giv/

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[011] - gjrand 2.0.0
by G. Jones (http://freshmeat.net/users/geronimojones/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 08:53

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Testing

About: gjrand is a programmer's library for pseudo-random numbers. It
includes random number generator testing code and is intended for
simulation, games, and "Monte-Carlo" algorithms. It produces pseudo-random
numbers of the types: uniform integers, uniform reals, normally distributed
reals, binomial, Poisson, integer permutation, chi-squared distribution,
"Student" T distribution, and spherical distribution.

Changes: There is a new underlying generator. This should be cleaner,
smaller, and faster in most cases. One deprecated API call was removed.
Otherwise, the API is the same. The same seeds as before will make
different sequences. Test code is somewhat cleaner but functionally
unchanged.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gjrand/

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[012] - GNU GTick 0.4.2
by Roland Stigge (http://freshmeat.net/users/stigge/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 09:02

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis

About: GNU GTick is a metronome application. It features a scale from 10
beats per minute to 1000 BPM and arbitrary beat modes (meters). It uses
GTK+2 and OSS.

Changes: Several new translations have been incorporated. Some minor
bugfixes and adjustments have been done.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtick/

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[013] - Hinversi 0.8.2
by Claudio Clemens (http://freshmeat.net/users/asturio/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 13:33

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy

About: Hinversi is a implementation of Reversi (a.k.a. Othello), a board
game in the style of Go. It can support many frontends and backends, so
you can select how clever your computer opponent is, and whether you like
to play using the console or a GUI. You can also let one AI engine play
against another one.

Changes: The notation of the coordinates has been corrected. There is also
a new frontend, which can be used as a reversi CGI backend. The frontend
can be used to make single Othello moves with a given AI engine using any
board setup.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hinversi/

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[014] - HL7 Browser 0.9.7
by Mike Litherland (http://freshmeat.net/users/gpf_me/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 03:24

About: The HL7 Browser is a tool that allows health care professionals to
simplify the analysis and editing of HL7 records. Its main features are a
tree-based message browser, a table-based reporting utility, and a TCP/IP
MLLP network tool for sending and receiving messages over the network.

Changes: This release fixes some problems with the underlying HL7 parsing
library. It also begins the process of splitting the code into the
constituent parts, so it's important to try and use the JNLP (WebStart)
installer if possible.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hl7browser/

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[015] - Interchange 5.6.0 (Stable 5.6.x)
by Interchange Development Group (http://freshmeat.net/users/akopia/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 03:30

Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: Interchange is a mature Web application development environment
with a focus on ecommerce and dynamic content management. It offers
session and user management, database connectivity (both via SQL and a
database abstraction layer), templating, a shopping cart, payment
processing, inventory, encryption (via GnuPG, PGP, etc.), tax and shipping
calculation, discounts, Web-based administration, localization, event
routing, SOAP-based RPC, a custom tag language akin to CFML, and the full
power of Perl. It grew out of two earlier projects, MiniVend and Tallyman.

Changes: This is a new stable branch that incorporates over 2 years of
development. Perl 5.10.0 and threaded Perl are supported. The security of
the standard demo 404 was fixed. An HTTP POST DoS was fixed. UTF-8 is
supported. PreFork server mode was improved. A universal ITL "hide"
attribute, four new payment modules, a native Perl Swish interface, the
BounceReferrals directive, the SpecialSub weight_callout, and a uniform
ActionMap calling interface were added. ccTLD is supported in DomainTail.
Options were improved. Logging was improved and $0 was updated. More
localization was done.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/interchange/

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[016] - itvp-dl 0.2
by Piotr Sobolewski (http://freshmeat.net/users/piotrsobolewski/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 10:58

About: itvp-dl is a tool to download movies from itvp.pl.

Changes: itvp.pl has changed the way they stream movies, which caused
itvp-dl to stop working. Now it works again.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/itvpdl/

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[017] - JerkLib 0.7r811
by mohadib (http://freshmeat.net/users/mohadib_/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 03:28

Communications :: Chat

About: Jerklib is a NIO based, event driven IRC library for Java. JerkLib
can be used for a bot or an IRC client. It is very flexable and easy to
extend.

Changes: This release of JerkLib adds the ability to easily change the
internal event parsing and handling. Other changes include a new mode
parser and general API enhancements.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jerklib/

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[018] - JGraph Layout Pro 1.4.1
by bensond (http://freshmeat.net/users/BessyBoo/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 04:38

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
Software Development

About: JGraph Layout Pro is a high performance graph layout library for
JGraph that automatically positions your graph, diagram, or network in a
visually pleasing manner. Layout Pro provides flexibility and a simple
design, enabling you to use circular, tree, force-directed, and
hierarchical layouts with ease. Example uses are organisational charts,
workflow and process diagrams, call charts, network diagrams, UML tools,
and more. It comes with its own documentation and an example applet.

Changes: This release corrects EAST, WEST, and SOUTH orientated multiple
tree layout spacings. The setProgress method resets to 0 on a layout
progress reset instead of 1. Additional hooks were provided for new energy
factors in the organic layout.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jgraphlayout/

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[019] - mach 0.9.3
by Thomas (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomasvs/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 10:42

System
System :: Software Distribution Tools
System :: Systems Administration

About: mach allows you to set up clean roots from scratch for any
distribution or distribution variation supported. Currently, this is
limited to RPM-based distributions. This clean build root can be used for
making clean packages, running jailed services, testing builds, or making
disk images of clean roots.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mach/

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[020] - Mail Notification 5.4
by Jean-Yves Lefort (http://freshmeat.net/users/jylefort/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 10:35

Communications :: Email
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Internet

About: Mail Notification is a status icon (aka tray icon) that informs you
if you have new mail. It works with system trays implementing the
freedesktop.org System Tray Specification, such as the GNOME Panel
Notification Area, the Xfce Notification Area, and the KDE System Tray.
Mail Notification features include multiple mailbox support, Evolution,
Gmail, IMAP, Maildir, mbox, MH, Mozilla products, POP3, Sylpheed, Windows
Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail support, SASL and APOP authentication
support, SSL/TLS support, automatic detection of mailbox format, immediate
notification, message popups, and HIG 2.0 compliance.

Changes: The regression that caused some read IMAP messages to be reported
as unread has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mail-notification/

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[021] - mapaaudio 2.97
by Ciprian Niculescu (http://freshmeat.net/users/x1f42/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 03:34

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: mapaaudio is an 1f42 A52A audio stream mapper. The written A52A
audio stream maps contain information such as stream frame rate, stream
duration and number of frames, file position of audio stream frames, and
so forth. The output conforms to the 1f42 H262 map file format (for which
specifications are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/x1f42/)
and can be used by programs (such as Mylene1f4 MPEG audio player) in
performing fast and accurate random access.

Changes: Support for non MPEG system embedded streams was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mapaaudio/

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[022] - mpg123 1.4.3
by Thomas Orgis (http://freshmeat.net/users/sobukus/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 04:39

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Mpg123 is a fast, free and portable MPEG audio player for Unix. It
supports MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers 1, 2, and 3, with CD quality playback
even on relatively slow CPUs.

Changes: This release fixed libmpg123 return values, stack alignment with
the library and different compilers, and CPU detection and mono playback
on Win32 systems. Users of IDT CPUs, serious users of libmpg123, and users
of Windows systems should upgrade to this version.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpg123/

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[023] - Openchart2 1.4.1
by approximatrix (http://freshmeat.net/users/approximatrix/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 23:57

Multimedia :: Graphics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: Openchart2 is a simple charting and plotting library designed for
incorporation with a variety of Java applications. The library can
generate two dimensional bar, pie, radar, and scatter charts with
customized titles, axis labels, legends, and colors. The simplicity of the
library is its strongest feature. Openchart2 is a branch of the original
JOpenChart library.

Changes: This version implements significant bugfixes to the coordinate
systems and their related calculations. A new interactive chart Swing
component has been introduced to allow easier data exploration. Bugfixes
have been included for the Dot Plot charting style introduced in version
1.4. New unit tests are now included in the distribution. No code changes
were made since release candidate 1.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openchart2/

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[024] - OpenWFEru 0.9.18
by John Mettraux (http://freshmeat.net/users/jmettraux/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 03:51

Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks

About: OpenWFEru is a Ruby-based workflow and BPM engine. It's a port of
OpenWFE from Java to Ruby.

Changes: The gem name has changed from "openwferu" to "ruote". The source
code has moved from Rubyforge to GitHub. New "step" expressions were added
for state-transitions based process definitions.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openwferu/

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[025] - Oroboros 20080522
by stnsls (http://freshmeat.net/users/stnsls/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 09:04

Religion
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy

About: Oroboros is an astrology application. It is based on the Swiss
Ephemeris (pyswisseph) for planetary calculations, the Olson timezone
database (pytz) for date and time resolution, and the Qt4 toolkit (PyQt4)
for the graphical user interface.

Changes: Bugfixes and interface improvements were made. The dates now
cover the entire swisseph time range (-5400 to 5400). A chart wheel can be
saved as an image file (PNG, JPEG, BMP, PPM, TIFF, XPM, XBM, or SVG).
Inter-aspects data is displayed (including midpoints and inter-midpoints).
Chart comments are formatted with reStructured Text, thanks to docutils.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/oroboros/

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[026] - otf2bdf 3.1
by squelch (http://freshmeat.net/users/squelch/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 13:25

Utilities

About: otf2bdf is a command line utility that uses the FreeType 2 font
rendering library to generate BDF bitmap fonts from OpenType outline fonts
at different sizes and resolutions. This program is essentially the same as
the ttf2bdf program except that it uses FreeType 2.*, not FreeType 1.*.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/otf2bdf/

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[027] - P4A 3.0.0-rc3 (Development)
by Fabrizio Balliano (http://freshmeat.net/users/balliano/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 04:37

Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: P4A (PHP For Applications) is a RAD and object oriented PHP
framework for building event-driven stateful Web applications. It features
tableless HTML, accesskey support, transparent AJAX support, auto data type
recognition, UTF-8 support, advanced i18n/l10n support, handheld "zero
code" support, "zero code" printing via advanced CSS2, and PEAR
integration.

Changes: File upload checks and error reporting were enhanced. A bug with
file downloading within a non-Ajax environment was solved. Zend Framework
was updated to 1.5.2. The P4A_Redirect_To_File() global function now
checks if the file really exists within P4A_UPLOADS_DIR, otherwise it
throws a P4A_Exception. P4A_Tab_Pane's pages' labels are now
auto-translated with getAsString(). P4A_Field::getAsDate() no longer sets
the field "readonly", thus dates can now be written by hand too. jQuery
was updated to 1.2.5. jQuery::UI draggable and droppable were added.
P4A_DB_Navigator's drag and drop movements were implemented.

License: Affero General Public License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/p4a/

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[028] - PerlGtk Adsense Checker 0.1.1
by Merlin, The Mage (http://freshmeat.net/users/themage/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 10:32

Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: PerlGtk Adsense Checker is a small script that runs in the
background and checks your adsense account every 30 minutes and shows your
actual earnings in a small popup window in the center of your screen. If
you put your mouse pointer over the systray icon, a tooltip with the same
information is shown.

Changes: The login has changed to support the new login from Google
acocunts.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/adsensechecker/

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[029] - pyswisseph 1.72.00-6
by stnsls (http://freshmeat.net/users/stnsls/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 08:58

Religion
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: pyswisseph is a Python extension to AstroDienst's Swiss Ephemeris C
library (also known as swisseph). This extension implements very accurate
astronomical calculations for astrological purposes.

Changes: A function was added to get the number of astrological years
difference between two Julian days. Very nice API documentation was
written.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyswisseph/

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[030] - Python bsddb3 4.7.0
by jcea (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcea/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 10:25

Database
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: Python bsddb3 is a Python module that provides a nearly complete
wrapping of the Oracle/Sleepycat C API for the database environment,
database, cursor, sequence, and transaction objects, and each of these is
exposed as a Python type in the bsddb3.db module. The database objects can
use various access methods: btree, hash, recno, and queue. It has complete
support for Berkeley DB distributed transactions and complete support for
Berkeley DB Replication Manager. The goal is to mirror most of the real
BerkeleyDB API.

Changes: Support for Berkeley DB 4.7.x. Support for the RPC client
service. Support for Replication Manager has been completed.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bsddb3/

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[031] - ropevim 0.1
by Ali Gholami Rudi (http://freshmeat.net/users/aligrudi/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 09:34

Software Development

About: Ropevim is a Vim mode that uses the rope library to provide
features like Python refactorings and code-assists.

Changes: This version supports most of the refactorings and code-assists
provided by rope.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ropevim/

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[032] - seek-1f42 1.55
by Ciprian Niculescu (http://freshmeat.net/users/x1f42/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 03:48

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video
Software Development :: Libraries

About: seek-1f42 is a library for reading 1f42 H262 maps. The 1f42 H262
maps are H262 (or MPEG if you very much prefer) stream descriptions
containing information such as stream frame rate, stream duration and
number of frames, file position of stream frames, and so forth.

Changes: An error recovery bug was fixed. The A52 audio stream ID has been
added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/seek-1f42/

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[033] - Spensierato Pre Release 3
by Fryer (http://freshmeat.net/users/prfryer/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 04:39

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: Spensierato is a simple-to-use Web site CMS. It is designed to
allow in-site editing so that non-technical users can just find the page,
update an element, and save it.

Changes: Code updates, new features including registration, and the use of
simple and advanced TinyMCE editors.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spensierato/

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[034] - Talend Open Studio 2.4.0RC2 (Development)
by Pierrick LE GALL (http://freshmeat.net/users/z0rglub_pierrick/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 04:38

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: Talend Open Studio is an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool.
Talend Open Studio can perform jobs that range from datawarehouse feeding
to database synchronization, as well as file format transformations. Its
graphical interface is made with Eclipse RCP, and data related scripts are
generated in Perl or Java. The application was designed to be extended with
components written by users.

Changes: Bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/talend/

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[035] - ThinkUI SQL Client 1.0.6
by ThinkUI (http://freshmeat.net/users/thinkui/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 03:48

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: The ThinkUI SQL Client is a graphical program that allows Java
developers to browse a database structure, edit data in the tables, issue
SQL queries, and generate code (e.g. Java Bean, DAO, SQL queries, JSP
files, etc.) based on customizable Velocity templates.

Changes: This release includes various enhancements as well as a number of
bugfixes. New features include support for generation of Hibernate domain
classes and mapping XML files, support for displaying REF CURSOR out
parameters from execution of stored procedures (Oracle specific), as well
as various GUI and code generation related improvements.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/thinkui_sqlclient/

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[036] - tinypy 1.1
by Phil Hassey (http://freshmeat.net/users/philhassey/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 10:19

Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: tinypy is a minimalist implementation of Python in 64k of code. It
includes a parser and bytecode compiler written in python. tinypy runs on
its own C-based virtual machine with garbage collection. It supports a
fairly decent subset of Python, including classes with single inheritance,
functions with variable or keyword arguments, strings, lists, dicts,
numbers, modules, list comprehensions, exceptions with full traceback,
some builtins, and several modules.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tinypy/

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[037] - Trash 0.1.10
by andrea (http://freshmeat.net/users/andreafrancia/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 13:17

System :: Filesystems

About: Trash is a command line interface trash can that implements the
FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification. For each trashed file it will
remember the name, original path, date of deletion, and permissions. It
interoperates with KDE Trash, and is CLI compatible with the rm command.

Changes: Now empty-trash remove directories without failing. An
incompatibility with KDE Trash has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bluetrash/

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[038] - Wing IDE 3.1.1
by Stephan Deibel (http://freshmeat.net/users/sdeibel/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 08:55

Software Development
Software Development :: Debuggers
Text Editors

About: Wing IDE is a development environment for Python. It provides
powerful editing, code intelligence, testing, debugging, and search
capabilities that reduce development and debugging time, cut down on
coding errors, and make it easier to understand and navigate Python code.

Changes: This release fixes the template tool to properly supports 2nd+
like-named fields, adds several VI mode improvements, fixes replace in
selection, avoids altering the caret position when auto-stripping trailing
white space, avoids trying to use unsupported Python versions, and
introduces about 20 other bugfixes.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wingide/

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[039] - XGalaga++ 0.8
by Marc Mongenet (http://freshmeat.net/users/mmo/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 03:22

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: XGalaga++ is a classic single screen vertical shoot em up. It is
inspired by XGalaga and reuses most of its sprites.

Changes: The date is saved with each high score. There are now fewer
scrolling stars in the background. There is now less randomness in bonus
distribution. The documentation was updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xgalagapp/

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[040] - XMMS-SID 0.8.0beta19 (Development)
by Matti Hämäläinen (ccr/TNSP) (http://freshmeat.net/users/ccrtnsp/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 04:40

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: XMMS-SID is an XMMS plugin which provides support for playing the
so-called "SID tunes". For the actual playing, XMMS-SID uses the
libsidplay SID-chip/6502 emulator engine. It features a file-info window,
STIL-database support, and good configurability.

Changes: Support for the CVS version of libSIDPlay2 (e.g. the new
COM-style API) was added. Small improvements were made in the GUI. A few
portability and other bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmms-sid/

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[041] - yawiki engine 2.1
by mecky (http://freshmeat.net/users/amecky/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 09:19

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML

About: The yawiki engine is the underlying rendering engine of the yawiki
application. It is a standalone rendering engine to convert wiki markup
into HTML. It can be included in any application. So far it covers three
different markups: BBCode, the old yawiki markup, and the Creole 1.0
specification.

Changes: A problem with lists that were not closed correctly if nested was
fixed. Several bugfixes were made to URL rendering. Bold and italic now
stop at a line break even if ** or // is missing. The PDF is included in
the release. Some minor additional bugs were fixed.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yawiki_engine/

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[042] - YourKit Java Profiler 7.5-RC3-build3046 (EAP)
by YourKit Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/YourKitTeam/)
Thu, May 22nd 2008 05:10

Software Development
Software Development :: Debuggers
Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: YourKit Java Profiler is a CPU and memory profiler that makes it
easy to solve wide range of CPU- and memory-related performance problems.
It features automatic leak detection, powerful tools for the analysis of
memory distribution, an object heap browser, comprehensive memory tests as
part of your JUnit testing process, extremely low profiling overhead,
transparent deobfuscation support, and integration with Eclipse, JBuilder,
IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, and JDeveloper IDEs.

Changes: Loading of big snapshots was improved, especially when the
profiler runs on a 64-bit JVM. Quality of sampling was improved for
programs that use java.util.concurrent blocking. Eclipse 3.4 M7 is
supported. Navigation to inner classes was improved for the Eclipse IDE.
Integration with 64-bit Windows and Linux was improved.

License: Free for non-commercial use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yjp/

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